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er, , ,rnehicaton of the Commandant of the ravelin, D J Codiiio, observing that in the front of the b, : l cry towards the Royal road, there are four pieces s.,,i ) ,ch the enemy has attempted to destroy. The same wiac,r, n his note of that day, remarks, that netny had coot need, dorng the whole night, lab , iors at the entrenchment on the right side of the ra,•-lin, in front of the breach." Uod:1 the same date, the dispatch from the Go- Vt; ,cquaints us, that a bomb thrown from Sar ra:;,t:.:, has silenced the fire of the enemy from the tower of St. Louis, which has been in a great degree 41etr , poi by it, and the explosion was so violent as to sh,ihe oven the castle of Montjuich. Of the 'Lennon that wore planted on the battery only one The loss of the enemy in men was very consi,!er. ble. 7einll:lS. Tne nine persons whose names are in the annexed and who belonged to the corps therein distin z:,ii•dled, volunteered to silence the new battery 5,vh. , ...11 the enemy bad constructed to flank the Royal rold and the bridge of the ra‘elin. This work they :!cc , ,mpliihed in two successive attempts, and the sin - 11 , 1.,e they had erected is still on fire, notwith ,,t.,:icling the endeavours of the enemy to extin i.;,,,,h i t . [Then follows the list of those persons, and the re cominendation of the Commanding Officer to re ward them for their courage.) MAILS. Art aiv —t Gottenburgh, t Lisbon, 3 Dublin, 3 Water. ford. lluz—l Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWILLVE O'CLOCK. Consols ..... • - - - • • - • daii THE SUN. SOLZIA QUIS DICIII lALSUI4 AODZAT ? LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 180 g. Advices have been received from New York, by a vessel arrived at Liverpool on Saturday, which staw, that the American Government has enforced O l e Non-Intercourse A& against this Country, and ha; issued a violent Proclamation. The followingi is extraaed from an American Riper:-- " BOSTOM, Auc.s.—Mr. COLES, the Messenger to France, in the Syren, passed through this city yester day tnorning, on his way to the city of Washington. The celerity with which Mr. CoLzs travelled, has I to the opinion that he is the bearer of very im . ortant information from France. Added to this, we understand, that, at the time of his departure for France, it was his intention, in case the state of our, affairs would permit, to remain in that country two or three years. His sudden return, there ft>re, does not augur very favourably to the hopes of a good ut:derstanding with . the French Government. " Several late letters from France concur in al lue-ing to the probability of Mr. ARMSTRONG'S Sp:•etty return home. " Every information from France increases in listility to this country. A letter of the . 17th June, from Paris, positiveiy states, that Mr. ARMSTRONG'S baggage was actually shipped on board the Mentor,' and that be was to embark immediately. The French Government, it is said, will give facility and safety to our commerce on no other terms than our with ttrawiug troth all connexion with Great Britain.— The American property in France, it is apprehend ed, will he sacrificed the moment Mr. ARMSTRONG withdraws from that country. To what a deplora ble humiliating condition are we reduced ! " the subje& of the three conditions prescrib tr..! EcSKINE, in the letter of instruetions of Mr. CANNING, the New-York Lvening Post says, ' The first condition being in the spirit of our n•en law, may, without disadvantage or dishonour, be complied with. The matter of the second con dition being distin&, and forming no part of the sehjeCt of the projeeted arrangement, may, with e,ther and similar points be referred to subsequent nego . iation. And with regard to the third condi ;;,,n, by the adoption of the same open and dignified course, which was formerly pur-red by the United States to enforce a non-intercourse with France, it " 1)-c:owes unnecessary, and would without doubt be It is with regret we have seen the abuse heaped on t he Bri►ish Government, from various quarters for a supposed breach of contra&. We should all learn caution from the issue, as it now appears; by ;ie publication of Mr. CANNING'S iIISITtIaiOIIS to Mr. ERSKINE, that th7ee conditions were proposed as esential to the arrangement, though the two first ere said to have bee❑ suggested by the Members of our own Administration, and the last is stated to base beep acceded ►o by Mr. PINCKNEY. A Portuguese frigate, arrived at Scilly in 33 days from Rio Janiero, with Dispatches, brings a report + , a% French frigate had arrived at Rio Jiniero to neg,oc . .ate for peace. A Mail from Lisbon arrived this morning, with advices from thence to the 3oth ult. A private Let re; from that Capital, of the 2gth states, that the licad-quarters of Lord WELL;NGTON were then at Sivas, that general Ban sfoßp was at Castel Bran co, and that the French had retired towards Madrid. report had reached Lisbon, from Spain, that the fit. la ROMANA was enerSted at Seville, and that he was to take the command of the army Of Estramadura. We have extraeted' an Order issued by the Spa nish Junta, dated the 15th ult. dire6ting the utmost exertions to be used for supplying the British army wi►h provisions, and the answer of the persons to whom it was addressed, stating that considerable supplies had bet obtained. A Gottenburgh, Mail arrived last night, by which we have advices from Stockholm, of the 30th ult. and from Gotteuburgh, of the 4th instant. The Russians, after obtaining a victory over the Swedes, near Umea, on the 19th, found themselves under the necessity of evacuating that place, which was on the 24th ult. in possession of the Swedes. We are sorry to learn that his Maje§ty's ship digameninon, of 64 guns, was lost in the River Plate, on the 20th of June last. The _Gazette of Saturday contains Copies and Ex traits of the Dispatches from Spain, of which we have already communicated the substance. The perusal of. Lord WELLINGTON'S Letters must be very gratifying to the friends of the sick and wounded British, abandoned at Talavera by the Spa nish General ; and the trausaBion is creditable, as well to our Commander, who has used every exer tion, in order to alleviate the di stres,:ses of these un fortunate men, as to the French Marshal MORTISE, from whom it appears that they have experionced so much attention as to render their situation, in the opinion of an Assistant Commissary who had been allowed to return, preferable to that of the French troops. Lord WELIANGToN's second letter, incloses a Report from Sir ROBERT WILSON, giving an account of his engagement with the French under Marshal NEY (not SOULT, as had been before stated) in which he acknowledges himself to have been worst ed, after a very spirited and judicious attempt to de fend the pass of Banos, and thereby to prevent the passage of the French troops towards Salamanca.— Sir ROBERT'S COIIdUEI is spoken of in terms which we are convinced must be highly gratifying to that officer. He is denominated as "an active and in telligent partizan ;" an expression to which some petulant friend of Sir ROBERT WILSON in this i country most needlessly objeas, as derogatory from the character of the Lieutenant-Colonel. We do not apprehend that Lord WELLINGTON is in the habit of considering how his Dispatches will read in The Times, but it really strikes us, that if he had consulted his whole .Staff, and turned over every page in the Military Dictionary, he could not have found a term more suitable to the situation in which Sir ROBERT WILSON had been placed, or More cal- LAlated to give satisfaetion to the mind of that zea lous soldier, than PARTIZAN. The word implies a specks of warfare more suited to the cal!ing forth of every species of qua nfication necessary to an Officer, than any that could have been named. In an " aaive and intelligent Partizan," what is called " military resource i"—Thin frame of mind which enables a man to judge promptly from circumstances as they arise ; to profit from every thing that occurs, I . and to turn even disadvantages to a good account. We have been led to these remarks by our anxious wish to defend Lord WELLINGTON from the flip pant, the injudicious advocate of Sir ROBERT WIL SON, and by our conviaion of Lord WELLINGTON'S intention to do complete justice to his merits. We have great pleasure in noticing the gallant condu& of the native troops under Sir ROBERT WIL SON'S command. The steadiness which they appear to have manifested, convince us of what we have long suspected, that the great deficiency of the Spanish and Portuguese troops, and, perhaps, parti cularly the latter, lies among the Officers. Of the third Letter from Lord WELLINGTON, which is dated (as we have before stated) trum Trox ' illo, the 21 St of August, an exttat only is given in the Gazette. It appears from this extraEl, that from the causes which we have aheady stated, Lord IVELTANG . roN was obliged to break up from Jaraicejo, where he had his head-quarters flow the t i tit to the 20th, and to fall back upon the frontiers of Portugal, where he hoped to be supplied with every thing he might wont. This statement confirms most fully every thing we have advanced upi,n the subjea of the retreat of the British Army. It appears that the French Mar shals, finding it quite hopeless to proceed offen sively against Lord WELLINGTON, and probably finding it difficult to subsist their several corps while united, have separated into different parts of Spain. VICTOR and MORIIER remain on the Tagus, and in La Mancha; Ney has retired to Salamanca, and SOI:LT to Plasencia. One of the most important fans, in corroboration of our statement of the nature of the retrograde movement of the British, is the confirm- ance of the head-quarters for nine days at Jaraicejo, between the bridge Arcobispo and Truxillo, with ad vanced posts en the Tagus, which must have been almost within shot of those of the French, Wero.y here see the nature of the escape, which some affeEt to consider as so fortunate a circumstance ! It appears also, that although Lord WELLINGTON was retiring towards the frontiers of Portugal, and of course was getting nearer to the coast, he did not at all consider an embarkation as necessary " in a military point of view ;" and eve❑ the Duke of DALMATIA will not aspire to the honour of driving Lord WELTANGToN into the sea. We shall take another opportunity of noticing the attack upon the British General on the score of im providence : but we cannot forbear from remarking at present, that if Lord WELLINGTON'S forward movement had rendered his retreat either in faet, or in his own opinion, doubtful and dangerous ; or even if it had caused his march to be disorderly, his fore sight and prudence might with justice have been call ed in question ; and it would have rested with him to repel the charge of improvidence by a circumstantial defence. But the accusation is most suspiciously preferred against a General, whose retreat has been much more deliberate than his advance, by no means less orderly, and never for an instant precarious. PORTUGUESE PAPERS. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATF. LETTER. " Lisnom, AUG. 29.—The whole of our army has left Spain. Sir A. WELLESLEY has his head quarters at Elvis; General BERESFORD is at Castel- Branco. They are said to have been obliged to re tire for want of provisions. " The French have retreated towards Madrid." LISBON, AUG. 28.—They write from Spain, that the Marquis DE LA ROMANA was expected at Se ville. The objeB of his journey was supposed to be of great importance : among the various conjeaures hazarded on this point, the most general one is, that he will take the command of Eitremadura.—(Cor reio de Farde.) BADAJOS, AUG. 22.—ROYAL ORDER, addressed to Senhores Don Louis MENDONZA and Don AN DRES GONZALES PACLIIO, Members of the Su preme Junta : " The Supreme Junta of the Government of the kingdom has seen, with the most lively interest, the observations which your Excellencies make in your memorial of the 12th instant, on the causes which have led to the want of provisions in the com bined army, arid the means of remedying this evil ; and while it employs the necessary measures for this purpose, it charges the to inform your Excellencies that out own security and defence requiring the said army, should be abundantly supplied with whenever it requires, for its subsisieuee and opera tions, our generous allies, who, frOning for our liberty aid independence, with the same enthusiasm as they would defend their own, rendor themselves creditors both by gratitude and justice, to every consideration and sacrifice of the nation and Go vernment. Your Excellencies will use every pos sible and conceivable effort, in order that the said army may want nothing of co-operating with the commission which his Majesty has given to the Member Don LORENZO CALVO, and with the in tention of the Government, which are direEted exclusively towards the welfare and salvation of the country. I communicate this by Royal Order to your Excellencies, for your information, dire lion, and fulfilment. " May God preserve your Excellencies many years. MARTIN DE GARAY." Royal Palace of Seville, August is. ANSWER. SlRE—With the greatest pleasure we have receiv ed the Royal Order of your Majesty, of the date of 15th, enjoining us to redouble our exertions for the supply of the English auxiliary troops. We have the satisfaaion to inform your Majesty, that the in habitants litre supply every thing with the greatest alacrity, and this town contributes 1000 rations daily, and meal and oats more than could be ex petted front a country so ravaged by the enemy. We have used every means to coned all the grain belonging to the Government of Garovillas, which is daily grinding in the mills of Talaban. The flour is afterwards deposited on the two bridges in the said town of Garovillas, in order that it may be in readiness whenever the Intendant may apply for provisions. The oats are deposited in Santo Jago del Campo, all within the distance of four leagues. If SENHOR DON LAURENCE CALVO will send an or der, it shall be immediately executed. Wu request your Majesty to be convinced that our patriotism cannot be exceeded. Provisions are daily arriving, even more, in the opinion of almost every one, than are necessary, this Province being as frank and liberal as any other., if not more so.—Liston Gazelle of 29. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses Mr- GusrA and SoFIHA, accompanied by Ladies SvpsEY and TI-VYNNE, General I.i'tTz4oy, Major Price, and Colonel DESBROW, rode to St. George's Chapel, and heard a sermon preached by the Hon. and Rev, Dr. MARSHAM, and afterwards returned to Wind, sor Palace. NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 9.—Arrived the galliot Risk, from St. Übes, bound to London, fell in with on the sth instant, about g leagues off the Lizard, a French schooner ptivateer, who boarded and took possession of her, and put three Frenchmen on board, but the privateer discovering .n number of ves sels to thb Eastward, coming down channel, and a large brig apparently armed, i standing from the west-. ' ward, immediately took out the Frenchmen, toge ther with the crew of the Risk, and one passenger which was on board her, leaving only one man in the vessel, which was ROBERT BROWNE, the mate; the privateer then went in pursuit of the merchant men coming down channel, and night coming on, the Risk soon lost sight of her ; the Mate then en. deavoured to bring the vessel into the first port he could make, and succeeded in bringing her within g miles of the Bolt Tail, where she fell in with two pi lot boats from the Westward, who brought her M here. The French privateer, captured on the 4th instant, a large merchant brig, from the coast of Africa, with a valuable cargo, bound to London, and a large , schooner, from the eastward, laden with provisions , bound to Lisbon. Arrived the French chasse-maree Napoleon, cap tured in Quiberon Bay by his Majesty's ship Medusa. Put back his Majesty's ship La Rhin, with the loss of her foretop-gallant-mast, and is also leaky, having encountered a heavy gale of wind off Ushant yesterday morning. Sailed the Virago gun-brig, to the Westward, and the American ship Faaor, JOHNSON, for Guernsey. The Harlequin hired armed ship is appointed convoy to the Eastward. SEPT. 9.—Arrived the American ship Powhatar, JOSHUA POYTHRESS, Master, from London, laden with sundries, bound to Virginia, with passengers. OnWednesday last, she fell in with a French schooner privateer, off Scilly, (the same that captured the Risk galliot, as mentioned in the former part of this let ter,) and was chased by her all that day, And part of the subsequent night; in the morning she lost sigh s of the privateer, and being driven up Channel, .she in consequence, bore-away for this port. Th 9 pri vateer had an English merchant brig, in company with her, which she had just before captured. Sailed the Sitlinvy, BLACKBURN, for Newfound- land. • Arrived the Agnes, HARVEY, from Cork, Well with provisions, last from Falmouth ; the schooner Elizabeth, COLLINGS, from Cork, laden with bet ter. bound to London ; the Wenzel schooner, and Hope tender, from the Westward. S. , iled the Pheasant sloop of war, to the East ward. The Niemen, Amide, and Druid frigates will be unlocked this evening. Went up the Harbour, to be docked, his Majes ty's ship Amethyst. PORTSMOUTH , SEPTA o.—Arrived liisMajesty'iship Scylla, with Dispatches from Lisbon ; Brilliant from the Downs; and Kent, with two ships from the Me ,diterranean, and are under quarantine.--Nothing sailed this day. Sc I LLY,SEPT.4 .—Arrived a Portuguese frigate from Rio Janeiro, in 33 days, with Dispatches ; informs that a French frigate had arrived at that port to nee Lociate tor peace. A brig from Niqadore to London was taken thii day by a French schooner privateer, DEAL, SEPT. 1 o.—Arrived the Prince of Orange, of 74 ; Belleisle, of 74 ; Leyden, of 64 ; Lavinia frigate ; Gluckstadt sloop of war ; and Locust gun• br g, from the Scheldt, with troops 00 board, con, sisting principally of the Foot Guards, 42d and 93d Highland Regiments, and 95th Light Infantry.--• The men, for the most part, seem very sickly. The following is the Proclamation issued by th e American Government, alluded to in a preceding c lump, which we have since received, and which does not bear that charatier of violence stated in the letters frcm Liverpool, being merely confined to a for mal announcement of the resumption of the Non , Intercouse Ael " PRESIDENT TO THE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA, " Washington City, Thursday, Aug. to. " Whereas, in consequence of a communicating from his Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinari and Minister Plenipotentiary, declaring that the British Orders in Council of January and Novem ber, 1807, would be withdrawn on the i oth Of June last, and by virtue of an Mt of Congress, entitled an At to interdi& the Commercial Inter. course between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for othet purposes, I, WII.LIAM MADISON, President, Scc• did issue a Proclamation on the t gth of April last , declaring that the Orders in Council aforesaid wool(' be withdrawn on the 20th of June, l after which the trade might be renewed, and as it is now official l Y made known to me that the Orders in Council a re not withdrawn agreeable to the declaration atoreoi' do hereby proclaim the same, and that th eA°l4 above stall remain in force." JAMES MADDISON.